Kaleigh Grainger

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Kaleigh Michelle Grainger (born Dudley, England, 28 February 1986) is a British unicyclist. She won a gold medal at Unicon X, in China, in 2000 when only 14 years old in the pairs freestyle category.{{Cite web |url=http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/unicon10/results/Pairs.html |title=Pairs Freestyle |access-date=2007-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107225341/http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/unicon10/results/Pairs.html |archive-date=2007-01-07 |url-status=dead }}

Kaleigh Grainger, the daughter of Stephen and Elaine Grainger, has been unicycling since she was four years old and learned many skills from her father, a circus skills veteran who currently operates his own travelling circus school.{{cite web |url=http://www.shootingstarscircus.co.uk |title = Shooting Stars Circus Skills}} Her mother died in December 2004, aged 46, after a five-year battle against cancer.

In 2001, just after her 15th birthday, Kaleigh became the first unicyclist to appear on Aster and Keli - one of Iceland's most popular children's TV programmes. That year, she also made an appearance at the British Juggling Convention held in Cardiff{{Cite web|url=http://thebritishjugglingconvention.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=BJC_14,_Cardiff,_2001#Public_Show|title=BJC 14, Cardiff, 2001 - British Juggling Convention Wiki}} and performed for the British Ambassador in Washington DC.{{cite web |url=http://www.roslynwalker.com/otherperformers.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206070140/http://www.roslynwalker.com/otherperformers.cfm |archive-date=2010-12-06 |title=Roslyn Walker :: Escape Artist - Other Performers}}

In November 2008 Kaleigh qualified as a barrister gaining the BVC from the College of Law, London and being called at Inner Temple where she is a member. Kaleigh gained her law degree from Lancaster University, Lancashire, in 2007, and is a former pupil of Sledmere Primary School in Dudley and St Michael's Church of England High School in nearby Rowley Regis.